Article Text
PDF
Statistics from Altmetric.com
OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text
Q Does 2% lidocaine gel reduce the pain and discomfort of bladder catheterisation in young children?
METHODS
Design:
randomised placebo controlled trial.
Allocation:
concealed.
Blinding:
blinded (patients, healthcare providers, and {data collectors}*).
Follow up period:
3–5 minutes after bladder catheterisation.
Setting:
emergency department in an urban tertiary care facility in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Patients:
115 children <2 years of age (mean age 231 d, 51% boys) who were having diagnostic bladder catheterisation. Exclusion criteria were allergy to lidocaine, altered mental status, unstable status with polytrauma, and toilet trained children.
Intervention:
2% lidocaine gel, 3 ml, (n = 59) or non-anaesthetic lubricant …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Dr J Pershad, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, Memphis, TN, USA. pershadj{at}lebonheur.org
Source of funding: no external funding.
Request Permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.